Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
Richard Michael "Mike" DeWineis an American lawyer and Republican Party politician from Cedarville, Ohio. DeWine is serving his second term as Ohio Attorney General, a seat he won election to in 2010 by defeating incumbent Richard Cordray. DeWine was sworn in on January 10, 2011...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth5 January 1947
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Many fear that our court is making policy, when it repeatedly strikes down laws passed by Congress and the state legislatures,
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Judges are not members of Congress, they're not state legislators, governors, nor presidents. Their job is not to pass laws, implement regulations, nor to make policy.
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Sometimes local, state and federal laws so clearly run afoul of the Constitution that the court must step in and strike them down. In most cases, the court performs this admirably and with great restraint.
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In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt reminded us that the Constitution is, and I quote, "a layman's document, not a lawyer's contract."
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To add to the confusion, some of the court's decisions involved multiple concurrences and dissents, making it hard even for lawyers and judges to figure out what the law is and why.
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There's no easy way to do it, ... Frankly, it's worked out the best for us because that way I get to see the kids every night when I come home for dinner.
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That's the way life is. If you don't measure it, it is easier for it to be forgotten,
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Michael was also a volunteer firefighter for the Bethany Pike Fire Department in West Virginia, which he formally joined when he was 18 years old,
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We now have what, for the general public, would appear at least to be a rather ludicrous situation. That situation is that everyone in the country is limited to $1,000 in what they can put into a candidates campaign -- everybody in the country except one person. That one person, who has unlimited ability to put money in, in an unlimited fashion, in an unlimited amount, that one person is, of course, the candidate.
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We need you to bring to the court your compassion and your understanding for the lives of others who haven't been as successful as you have been.
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We got the money because we thought it was an exciting idea that would really help the handicapped, the elderly and anyone else wanting to come fish,
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I expect these hearings will show that you have the appropriate philosophy to lead our nation into the future.
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I have always been pro-life, and I have felt very strongly about this from the first day I went to Washington, D.C., as a congressman in 1983.
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When you first look at it, you think, 'It's not such a big deal,' ... But when you realize the possible implications, somebody using one of these to go 80 miles an hour through rapidly changing lights, you realize it could be life-threatening.